My “Baby” in rehearsal today. She is an absolute beginner, she has not had a proper singing lesson in her life but I am helping her a little bit.
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This is Halldór Gunnar Pálsson. He is a guitar man, a choir director, a composer and a man on a mission. He got the wonderful and altogether crazy idea to capture the voice of the nation in his new song. He figured that 10% of the nation would suffice and he is travelling the country to record the voices of volunteers who sing the chorus under is direction. Everyone is welcome to participate, young and old, experienced singers and beginners alike.
Halldór is a wonderful friendly guy and a family friend too. My husband was his guitar teacher for four years and they have been friends ever since. He visitied Vík on his round tour and recorded those who turned up to sing.
The song won’t be public until it’s ready, but here is the very easy chorus he is teaching the nation to sing:
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Boy, did we have an exiting weekend.
As my regular readers know, my youngest and her friend participated in a national youth singing competition on Saturday, that was broadcast live on television.
The day started early with a sound check and hair-curling. I had bought a new cone shaped curling iron for the occasion (and for her confirmation too) and tried it out the day before. I’m not bad at curling hair, but it does take time on thick long hair! A full hour or so.
Then it was time for light makeup and warm-ups. And a lot of waiting. My girl and her friend were the second last act, nr. 29 of 30. The wait was a bit nerve wracking for them, but once on stage, they were calm and poised. Their performance was flawless, and they were very well received. They did not place among the top three though.
Here are some shots from the “green room”, reveling the dream dress that some have been waiting to see.
Some of the accompanying moms brought their knitting:
They were without a doubt the one of the best dressed acts. Note the sneakers on the second photo. My daughter not only sang, but played the piano as well. The venue only offered an electric piano and the pedals on those are really small and hard to feel in heels. So she wanted flat soft shoes, and decided to wear her new sneakers. Why she wore the woolen socks too, I do not know.
You can watch them here. Update: There is still a bit of trouble with the webcast. The sound starts at 141 minutes but the image at 236 minutes…
On Sunday, the Vík Cheerleaders with my daughter as captain, cheered the local basketball teams last home game this season. Two of our “veteran” cheerleaders, that have moved away, were visiting and they joined in. We also regained a very skilled member that day, and one extra guest too, so the half time performance was extra special.
Something else entirely:
You might not think so, from the activity on this page – but I’m actually both alive and relatively well too.
I have been working on an CD cover for a band from the village, and as this is my first assignment of this nature, it did take a lot of time and effort.
But it went to the printers this afternoon and I hope it turns out all right.
I made this “video” for fun, it’s the title song from the CD and some photo’s I took to decorate it. Some are from the album cover, some are older.
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This is my lovely stepdaughters (Icelandic) cover version of the famous Dylan song. This is a family project, her father arranged the song and played the instruments, I translated the lyrics and took the pictures.
My husband is in a local band. They played at the village pub last night to launch their new CD.
I didn’t have any video camera, but I did take some pictures and to them you can hear one of their songs, written and performed by my husband.
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Rachel Herron, which many of you know from ravelry as yarnagogo, is releasing her new book today. She made a very cute and original book launch video, check it out:
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I’m quite proud of myself today. I just finished making a cheer mix, for my little cheer leading team all by myself.
Now that may be every day task for some of you – but I have never done anything like that before.
I used the Acoustica mp3 Audio Mixer,and it worked like a charm, even though I only had the trial version.
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From today – Christmas song and my daughter is singing solo.
This choir is just few weeks old and the youngest members are in first grade (six years old).
